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93 Points - Robert Parker's Wine Advocate:
"The 1986 Haut-Brion, which I thought should be fully mature by now, remains a backward, highly concentrated, powerful wine with more noticeable tannin than most top vintages. The wine does possesses a tell-tale smoky tobacco and sweet black currant-scented nose, in addition to subtle new oak and minerals scents. This medium to full-bodied, rich, intensely smoky wine has still not reached its plateau of maturity. It is unquestionably the wine of the vintage for Graves, and not far off the pace of the great 1986 first-growth Medocs. Anticipated maturity: 2000-2015. Last tasted 7/97." - Robert Parker (Jan 1998)

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About this Wine:

Château Haut-Brion’s tasting notes :
A GOOD YEAR

A tannic wine, very much characteristic of the Graves. A hint of caramel and of burnt. A very good wine. Will age slowly.

Current vintage notes
A rather cold spring. Hard weather conditions in June for the flowering. A hot and dry summer carried through until the end of the harvest period.